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Getting Started ：Course A took us to the end of Matthew 25. In that study we looked at Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, as well as many of the things Jesus taught during the week before Passover and his arrest. The Anointing at Bethany was not part of that study because it appears in the Gospel of

Getting Started Lesson 1 put us on the path of Jesus’ suffering and death. The plot was devised between Judas and the Jewish leaders. In the meantime, Jesus and his disciples were ready to celebrate Passover together in the room that had been arranged by Jesus. We gather in the Upper Room for this lesson, and we learn many things as silent listeners to this

Getting Started The Passover Meal has been celebrated. In the course of that meal Jesus had demonstrated and spoken of humility and true greatness, he had warned Judas of the danger of the choice he was making, he had given his disciples the new Supper as part of the New Covenant, and he had warned them, and especially Peter, about the negative things that lay ahead. The lengthy Upper Room

Getting Started Passover has been celebrated, the Lord’s Supper has been given, the conversation is finished, the prayer for disciples has been offered. Jesus is about to complete the final stage of the work he had come to do. It’s time to face his enemies. It’s a difficult task. He first needs the added strength of more prayer. We

Getting Started The suffering began in the garden. It intensifies in the halls of judgment. For the most part, Jesus faces his accusers in dignified silence. The prophet Isaiah wrote, He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.(53:7) There was no

Getting Started Jesus’ enemies had pressured the Roman governor into giving them what they had wanted – the death sentence for Jesus. So deep was their hatred for him. So deep was God’s love for us. Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, would become the perfect substitute victim to suffer the Fat

Getting Started A German Lutheran hymn for Good Friday states, O große Not! Gott selbst ist tot. An English translation would be, “O terrible necessity! God himself is dead!” As difficult as it is for the human mind to comprehend such a thing, God the Son died on Good Friday. It was possible only because he shared our human nature.

Getting Started In Matthew 12:39-40 Jesus had spoken of the sign of the prophet Jonah as a prophecy of his resurrection from the dead. Joseph’s tomb becomes his heart of the earth, and the most important event in world history is set to take place on the third day after his death. (Note: The “third day

Getting Started: The Lord Jesus was alive. He proved his victory over sin and death by appearing to the women on their way back from the tomb, to Mary, to Peter, to the two disciples on the way to Emmaus, and to the group of disciples in the locked room, which excluded Thomas. More testimony needed to be given. Encouraging words needed to be spoken to Thomas and to Peter,